The biennial IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence was held in Beijing from 6 to 11 July. Prof. Wang Jun from the Faculty of Engineering received the Neural Networks Pioneer Award from the IEEE president-elect for his outstanding achievements on neurodynamic optimization.

An IEEE fellow and editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Professor Wang has worked on the theory and applications of neural networks since the late 1980s with remarkable achievements.

Started in 1991, the Neural Networks Pioneer Award is considered the highest honour in the field of neural networks. Professor Wang is the third Asian to receive this honour.